Does Poor Dental Health Have a Role in the Emergence of Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease in the United Kingdom?
Introduction: Variant creutzfeldt jakob disease (vCJD) is the hu-man neurological disease known to be caused by the same proteinaceous infectious agent (“prion”) that causes Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or "Mad Cow Disease". Two un-usual and unexplained characteristics of the vCJD epid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2011-05-01
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| Series: | Dental Hypotheses |
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| Online Access: | http://www.dentalhypotheses.com/index.php/dhj/article/view/33 |